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title: By eating of a certain herb he made himself much bigger to see, and… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: By eating of a certain herb he made himself much bigger to see, and with another herb he darkened his face almost to blackness. Who acts: Mawgis. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 62

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By eating of a certain herb he made himself much bigger to see, and with another herb he darkened his face almost to blackness.

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**Who acts:** Mawgis · **What happens:** eat, make, see, darken · **To what, where:** Mawgis, face

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mawgis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:8:62
# text = By eating of a certain herb he made himself much bigger to see, and with another herb he darkened his face almost to blackness.
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	darkened	darken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	blackness	blackness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund | Mawgis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a certain herb | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of herb=Source |
| 2 | **make** | past | Mawgis | Mawgis |  |  |  | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | Mawgis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **darken** | past | Mawgis | Mawgis's face |  |  |  | with another herb; to blackness | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent face=Patient with herb=Instrument |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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